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Treating Child Abuse

There are many forms of child abuse. Typically though, it is when a parent
or caregiver causes injury, death, emotional harm, or risk of serious
harm to a child. Unfortunately, there are more than 3 million reported
cases of child abuse in the United States each year.

We take child abuse very seriously. Our Metro RDTC professional team consists
of highly experienced pediatric medical specialists and mental health
professionals working across all of our New Jersey pediatric facilities.
These professionals have received extensive training in assessing and
treating all forms of child maltreatment.

Our team conducts a wide range of peer education and training programs
designed to improve the skills from other professionals in recognizing
and reporting child abuse and neglect, as well as preventing abuse and
neglect. Programs are offered year-round for medical professionals, ER
personnel, mental health professionals, DCP&P personnel, law enforcement
agencies as well as the community-at-large. These include:

Grand Rounds/Professional Seminars are held at least each quarter to train
pediatric and Emergency Room colleagues, residents nurses, DCP&P personnel
and CASA volunteers on a wide range of child abuse issues. Topics include:

EPIC SCAN Training is conducted in collaboration with the New Jersey Chapter
of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is taught with a resource educator
from the Division of Child Protection and Permanency. It trains professionals
to recognize and report child abuse and neglect.

The Period of Purple Crying is a program in conjunction with the New Jersey
Chapter of Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey to educate parents on coping
with crying, educate on the dangers of shaking infants, and to reduce
non-accidental head trauma. Parents are trained in the nursery and at
well-baby visits in the first year of life.

“Enough Abuse!” is a train-the-trainer prevention training
program offered in collaboration with Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey.
It is designed for parents, caregivers and professionals to improve techniques
for speaking about sexuality, to end the silence about child sexual abuse,
and to prevent sexual abuse from happening in the first place.

Patient Stories

“We told Grace to feel her feelings and then look for the bright spot, rise up and move forward,” added mom Aubrey. “By encouraging Grace to bounce to the bottom and then come back up, she was able to truly feel the hardship and then consciously turn it ...